Senior SQL Developer Jobs in London

Senior SQL Developer
England > London

The median Senior SQL Developer salary in London is £70,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 498 588
Rank change year-on-year +106 +90 +264
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior SQL Developer 8 9 42
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 0.063% 0.038% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.041% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 28
10th Percentile £60,375 £65,000 £60,501
25th Percentile £66,563 £67,500 £64,330
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £70,938 £106,875 £81,250
90th Percentile £72,625 £111,250 £92,900
England median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £68,823
% change year-on-year +3.70% -1.92% +14.71%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,467 22,216 33,633
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.18% 94.11% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 7,483 16,715 24,685
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,112 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -3.45% +3.57%
75th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior SQL Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior SQL Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior SQL Developer in London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in London.

Salary trend for Senior SQL Developer in London

Senior SQL Developer
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior SQL Developer in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior SQL Developer in London

Senior SQL Developer
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior SQL Developer within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +33 7 £70,000 -30.00% 2
Senior SQL Developer
England

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2025, Senior SQL Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the London region featuring Senior SQL Developer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 7 (87.50%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (87.50%) Azure
2 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (62.50%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) Wealth Management
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (50.00%) Statistics
4 4 (50.00%) Refactoring
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (50.00%) Back Office
4 4 (50.00%) Workflow
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (50.00%) Metadata
4 4 (50.00%) Data Hub
4 4 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 4 (50.00%) SaaS
4 4 (50.00%) SQL CLR
4 4 (50.00%) High Availability
4 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning

Senior SQL Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (50.00%) SaaS
3 3 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) Power BI
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (50.00%) Data Hub
3 4 (50.00%) Metadata
3 4 (50.00%) SQL CLR
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 4 (50.00%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (62.50%) Wealth Management
3 4 (50.00%) Data Privacy
3 4 (50.00%) Fintech
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (50.00%) Refactoring
3 4 (50.00%) Statistics
3 4 (50.00%) Workflow
4 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (12.50%) Agile
6 1 (12.50%) Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Coaching
6 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
1 8 (100.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cognos